Transportation Manager

Welcome to the world of LSG Sky Chefs, where we provide end-to-end onboard products and services with the finesse of a Michelin-starred restaurant. But what makes us stand out is not just our culinary expertise, but also our transportation department that ensures timely delivery of our delectable meals to your flights.

Our transportation team is the backbone of our operations, ensuring that our meals are delivered with the utmost care and precision. And who better to lead this team than our transportation manager, who ensures that everything runs like clockwork?

Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision ELIGIBLE DAY 1!

Employer-paid life insurance, AD&D, and a variety of voluntary benefits. ELIGIBLE DAY 1!

Flight Benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Vacation, Sick, and Holiday Pay

401(k) including company match

Free Meals & Parking

Opportunities for Advancement

Why you'll enjoy this job

As an Operations Manager for Transportation at LSG Sky Chefs, your role is to ensure the smooth and efficient control of all transportation activities following customer policies and requirements. Additionally, you will be required to ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, FDA, HACCP, safety, health, environmental, and other regulations.

What you'll do

Strategically plan, organize, and manage a department concerning daily hours, schedules, productivity, quality, and safety.

Responsible for department costs to budget through effective manpower planning, scheduling, and overtime usage.

Ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), safety, health, environmental, and other regulations.

Ensure on-time and accurate production in the preparation of food/equipment and catering of flights

Investigate customer quality issues, develop and implement corrective actions

Strong knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), FDA, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.

Maintain an ongoing, positive, and proactive relationship with all internal and external customers

Attend the daily operations briefing

Provide data for the development of an annual business plan and budgeting for the department

Ensure optimal deployment of human, technical, and material resources in the department

Initiate and control continuous optimization of processes

What you should have for this role:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred

In addition, three to five years of transportation/logistics experience in a management role

Experience in using and managing Variable Production Systems and schedules

Strong presentation, communication, training, and interpersonal skills

Proven success in improving work processes and leading change in a complex, fast environment

Excellent analytical and conceptual skills

Demonstrable record of understanding and meeting customer expectations

Proven track record of understanding the drivers of product and labor cost variances with the ability to manage budgets

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows-based computer applications

Flexibility and adaptability to changing situations